Effortless Beauty: Photography as an Expression of Eye, Mind and Heart

Effortless Beauty: Photography as an Expression of Eye, Mind and Heart by Julie DuBose. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780985977405.

Effortless Beauty is about seeing the visual world in a fresh way, beyond our conceptual overlays of personal preference and perspective. The author describes how we can train ourselves to bring the eye and mind together in a single moment of undistracted, unified attention, and how we can maintain stillness of mind as we understand and express our perception with our camera. When we can be present and available to see the visual world as it appears, we find that our way of relating to our moment to moment experience is profoundly affected by our ability to rest our minds in the present moment and receive our perceptions without judgment and interpretation. We can trust in the primacy of our experience of seeing, and we can develop confidence in our ability to connect unconditionally, without aggression, with our world. Expression becomes an act of appreciation and intimate consummation of our experience.